When we cried over the destruction of USAID, we were told "it's all fraud and waste." Administration officials laughed: "no one died." Of course people are dying. Every day. Never forget what these ghouls did. Never let them get away with calling themselves "pro-life." Not even for a second.

Since there are Jewish organizations — some of them religious/rabbinic — falling all over themselves to support this cruel and reckless war, let me dust off some of the Jewish religious texts I taught when I was a baby rabbi, during the second Iraq War: 🧵...

A meditation on Chapter 9 of the Book of Esther, from my colleague Rabbi Dev Noily. Tragically this year, even more appropriate and necessary.

“The security we profess to seek in foreign adventures we will lose in our decaying cities. The bombs in Vietnam explode at home — they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.” (MLK, April 15, 1967)

The great thing about seeing Jews on social media obscenely preen or gloat over the still-warm bodies of innocent civilians is that I know exactly who to unfriend and block.

Excellent response from @dsasf.org ... do not be fooled by right-wing hit pieces. Give DSA credit for doing and saying the right things.

... as opposed to the same 15 or so Jewish org chairs and donors who act on behalf of the Jewish community, who all go to the same parties, and see each other at the same banquets, and live in the same neighborhood, but who are most certainly NOT in any kind of echo chamber.

Somewhere in this great nation there must be an American patriot who can devise an algorithm to automatically go through every post on Trump's "Truth"Social account, and replace each noun with the word "Epstein."

Why should we have to know "how to tell?" Why is the onus on the potential victim of harassment? Where is the morality in a society that says, "this immigrant might hurt us, so let's deport her," while also saying, "this person is using tech in public that might hurt us — you're on your own."

Am I crazy to think it would be a political coup for the Dems to immediately propose "tariff refund" checks to all Americans?

10/10. No notes.

You think any of the folks responsible for this graphic know that the vast majority of these folks didn’t live in Israel — and many never set foot in the place?

This man is a disgrace to Jews, to his party, to his government, and to his God. To my Muslim friends and colleagues, please know this does not represent the feelings of the vast majority of Jews I know.

“I really love that donut shop. 1 out of 10 of their donuts have rabid arsenic piranhas inside them, but the rest are great.”

No @nbcnews.com … a “mega warehouse” sounds like a Costco. This is a concentration camp.

“That’s the romance, those little moments in this crazy world, where we could look at each other and go, ‘You’re cute.’ Then we walk downstairs to a barrage of press, lights and cameras, and it’s like, ‘Just stay in this moment. It’s really just us. This is nice.’” (Michelle Obama)

Oh there’s someone out here giving off ape vibes, but it sure as hell ain’t Obama.

What in the absolute pits of hell is this? Is it from Epstein? To him? Something else?

No truth to the rumor that I'm being traded to the Jazz for their lottery pick, and a rabbi to be named later.

Ztz"l to Mickey Lolich, Tigers ace and World Series hero, who famously opened a donut shop in Lapeer, Michigan to avoid the indignity of playing another inning for the late '70s Mets.

From the people who told you that trans women peeing, alone in a stall, would traumatize teenage girls...

Legacy Jewish orgs: oMg how could you pOsSiBly compare ICE disappearing people and shooting folks in the street to Nazis? Holocaust survivors: Getting Anne Frank vibes here. Can we hide our Haitian caregivers in our senior housing?

They’re home. If you demonstrated, wrote your reps, or signed a petition… mazl tov, you helped make this happen. What you do matters. Keep it up.

So you watch that video, and the thing that catches your eye is the broken taillight? Not the half dozen men dressed in combat gear brandishing military rifles, on the streets of a US city? Is that your final answer?

Weird question. Looking at paintings by a guy named Louis Anquetin, who I've never heard of before, and all the paintings look like famous paintings by other artists. Toulouse-Lautec, Van Gogh, etc. For people who know about art: Could this person be an AI creation? Was Anquetin a real person?

@actblueorg.bsky.social These are all day and night. Four before 9am, all with actblue in the url. I have contacted you numerous times. This is harassment … FCC/FEC violation. How can I report it without Trump’s DOJ ghouls coming after you? I might have to report it anyway…

You don’t need gas chambers for Holocaust comparisons to be apt. This looks like it was cut and pasted from Der Stürmer. The point is to sound the alarm BEFORE we get to gas chambers.

So just to be clear... the people who have been calling progressive Jews "kapos" for the last decade are suddenly squeamish about Holocaust comparisons?

A Dutch order for Jews to report to a camp. Anne Frank’s family defied a similar order. They were suddenly “in the county illegally.” The people didn’t change. The law did. If you are a Jew and don’t understand how laws are manipulated to make minorities into criminals, go study the Holocaust.

Jews in or near San Diego: let's show up. I'll be joining other clergy in a procession with San Diego Organizing Project in Barrio Logan to call on our leaders to protect our families. Today, 4pm, Cesar Chavez Park. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Defund ICE. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

To me, IHRA will always be the International Hot Rod Association.

The school district provided a statement from Liam’s teacher, expressing shock over the boy’s detention: “Liam is a bright young student. He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He comes into class every day and just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”

if you are surprised that politicians aren't joining or at least supporting the people protesting ICE, let me tell you about the AIDS crisis years.

someone get freddy a BAGEL

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

ChongLy Scott Thao. US citizen. at home in St Paul, Minnesota. ICE broke down his door. No warrant. Pointed guns. Handcuffed ChongLy. 5-year-old grandson napping on the sofa. Woke up crying in fear. ChongLy taken outside. Freezing weather Wearing only underwear and Crocs. This is Sodom.

I’ll only add that, in every B-rate movie about World War II, there’s a scene in which a Nazi puts up a hand and barks “papers please!” in a cartoonish German accent. In other words, randomly asking for ID documents in public spaces is a living meme of Naziism. There’s no way they don’t know that.

Take a moment out of being concerned for the safety and wellbeing of your immigrant neighbors to imagine the response had Obama given the finger to an autoworker on the factory floor.

Another neo-Nazi found in the federal government, while Jewish orgs put out breathless statements about what Mayor Mamdani had for lunch.

Another day in which Jewish orgs focus on Muslim speech, but are silent when Jews are attacked by men quoting from the Christian bible, "synagogue of Satan." Another day when Muslims are called to condemn Muslim antisemitism, but Christian churches, ministers, and priests are held unaccountable.

In a harrowing “your papers please” moment, which made my heart race as I watched it, she provided all the answers necessary: “I belong here” “This is my city” “This is my home”

"Pittman, 19, admitted to setting Beth Israel on fire, calling it the 'synagogue of Satan'" "Synagogue of Satan" is a direct quote from the Christian bible. The phrase also appears in the "manifestos" of the Pittsburgh and Poway murderers. Church leaders MUST condemn this violent rhetoric.

The day after they murdered Renee Nicole Good, ICE thugs descended on a school, smashed car windows, tackled and handcuffed school administrators, and gassed the crowd, including students. This is Pharaoh's Egypt.

@defector.com charges for comments, so I'll say this here. US law enforcement has been racist for centuries. Blaming Israel for ICE agents murdering a woman in Minnesota is a stretch at best, Jew-hatred at worst. Moreover, it deflects attention from Renee Good and the thugs who murdered her. Stop.

"There was a young woman who'd take bread to the poor in a pitcher so the people of Sodom wouldn't see it. The matter was revealed, so they smeared her with honey, put her on a wall, and hornets came and devoured her... a woman killed for an act of kindness." (Talmud, Sanhedrin 109b, Steinsaltz ed.)

After 10 years, I'm so enervated by the president, the reality and thought of him, his speech and his actions, but today I wondered... Has he ever cried? What would make him cry?

Given how concerned they are about the poor Venezuelan people, I assume the White House will immediately restore TPS protections to all Venezuelans in the US… right?